With your BitTorrent addiction in full swing, you've filled hard drives with media but can't seem to figure out how to burn any of the videos you downloaded to a DVD. Sound familiar? It's a common problem, and there was a time that it didn't have many simple (or free) solutions. Luckily that's no longer the case, and today we're taking a look at two dead simple solutions for burning virtually any video to a DVD you can pop into your DVD player and enjoy.

DVD Flick

First and foremost, there's DVD Flick, a free, open-source application that supports over 45 different file formats, includes subtitle support, and makes creating a DVD from most common (and even uncommon) video files a breeze. I detailed how to burn almost any video file to a playable DVD with DVD Flick almost two years ago now, but the app is better than ever. Since I last wrote it up, DVD Flick has added support for creating custom menu screens and has pushed out a load of bug fixes.

Free DVD Creator

If DVD Flick isn't your thing, then check out Free DVD Creator. It's not open source like DVD Flick (we do love our FOSS), but it's still free, and it offers most of the same features as DVD Flick.

Also like DVD Flick, the Free DVD Creator wizard is dead simple to use. First select the movies you want to burn and arrange them in the order you'd like them to playback and appear on the DVD menu. On the next screen, you can completely customize your DVD menu screen. Once you've made it that far, just start burning. Free DVD Creator (like DVD Flick) will handle all of the file conversions necessary, then write the DVD-ready video to a DVD complete with your custom menu.

If you have trouble with the one step convert-and-burn (when I tested it, Free DVD Creator created the DVD but didn't immediately burn), just re-open Free DVD Creator and this time select Video DVD Burner instead of Create Video DVD. Then just point the Burner at the VIDEO_TS folder that Free DVD Creator made the first time around (by default it's located at C:\DVDTemp\ and hit Burn. That worked for me without a hitch.

Got a favorite tool for burning your various videos to DVD? Whether we mentioned it above or not, let's hear more about your tool-of-choice in the comments.

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My parents met at Cal in 1942, our family has called the Bay Area home ever since. In 1975, halfway through the 6th grade, I was uprooted from Burlingame and spent Jr.High in Jakarta, Indonesia. I did my undergraduate course work at UCSD in La Jolla where I completed a double major in Comparative Politics and Histories of the Americas. Oliver North and the CIA managed to shatter the foundations of the Latin America desk at the State Department so rather than enter the foreign service I started temping at a law firm as a legal assistant in 1986 . After a dozen or so years as a Sr. Legal Assistant I headed the staff for the technology litigation group at Cooley Godward in Palo Alto. On Independence Day 1988 5 partners 3 secretaries and my paralegal squad bid farewell to the big firm womb. I remain extremely proud of my role as a founding member of a start-up boutique IP law firm, Day Casebeer, LLP. I was fortunate to have outstanding client work in the Life Sciences/Biotech sector on behalf of Amgen, Applied Bio Systems, Genentech, Alza and ICOS. On the EE side I headed the discovery battle for SUN in the JAVA litigation against Microsoft as well as the antitrust actions that followed the browser wars. After 22 years as a paralegal administrator, trial support specialist and the master chief of bet the company no holds barred patent litigation, I resigned in 2007 to address the care of my elderly parents.